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Linux kernel creator and maintainer who announced 7.2 and described AI-driven patch volume as the 'new normal'.
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Linus Torvalds said selftests make up a quarter of the Linux 7.3-rc5 patch by line count, a split he called unusual. A few very large test patches produce that share, so the size of the rc alone gives teams planning for 7.3 little reason to wait.
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A model that quits is harder to audit than a model that lies, because a refusal leaves no artifact to check. The Xe driver fix shows the quitting verdict can be flatly wrong.
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Sean Goedecke argues that visible anger gets you excluded from the conversations where the interesting work is handed out, and the awkward part is that his own essay rates those engineers above average at shipping, so no dashboard catches the loss.
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Linux now has trailer keywords for AI-assisted patches. The interesting part is not the tag, it is that a human has to put it there and existing scripts already parse the field.
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The scheduler change is throughput you get for the cost of an upgrade. The more durable news is that late-cycle patch volume is now permanently larger, and the maintainer has stopped fighting it.
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